Senior Engineering Manager at Okra

Okra - Our mission is to digitize financial services. We are building the tools and services that will enable developers launch, optimize, & scale financial platforms and services. Our thesis is simply the fact that - financial innovation cannot exist without an Open Finance infrastructure. Essentially, the growth of the African Fintech industry is intrinsically tied to the success of an infrastructure like Okra.

Okra powers the tools that millions of people rely on to plan and manage their finances today. We are proudly working with hundreds of companies like Interswitch and D-local, and many of the largest financial institutions to make it easy for people to securely connect their accounts to the apps and services they choose. Okra’s network covers over 100 banks and financial institutions across Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full Time

The role

• We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our engineering leadership team.
• As one of the most senior engineering leaders in the team, you will work across multiple teams to drive alignment, strategy adoption, and continuous delivery. You will assume direct EM responsibility for one of our teams while supporting others through influence.
• You will be able to assess a variety of needs, recognize opportunities, and prioritize across challenges such as team-level goal setting, culture development, organizational structure, delivery velocity, budget management, team building, as well as individual coaching and mentoring.
• You offer a breadth of combined experience in technical background and leadership experience, working with other leaders across organizations.
• You are intimately familiar with driving change and adoption, implementing a delivery mindset as well as applying lean, enabling tools and processes.
• You have a depth of expertise in a key relevant area that can directly impact one or more of speed, cost, and quality.
• Okra brings multiple years of experience in the African ecosystem, a diverse team working across continents, and a culture that puts customer focus, trust, and idea-meritocracy front and center.
• You will get to work directly with our senior leaders, interact across teams, and see your impact.

What you will do

• Take full EM responsibility of one of our teams
• Drive and influence delivery across multiple teams
• Drive continuous delivery implementation and adoption
• Own key initiatives across one or more of speed, cost, and quality
• Share your experience and knowhow with other engineering leaders
• Manage, coach, and mentor individual contributors as well as potential managers
• Assist and influence architecture and development best practices
• Help identify and observe core engineering metrics
• Help improve developer experience and overall productivity.

What will help you succeed

• Multiple years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Ability to seamlessly switch between business and technical conversations
• Deep understanding of core team performance and developer productivity metrics
• Experience managing team-level infrastructure budgets.
• Experience managing multiple teams
• Hands-on experience mapping products, domains, technology, and resources to teams
• Proven track record of owning engineering initiatives end-to-end
• Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.

Nice to have:

• Experience managing managers
• Experience integrating and working with banks and financial institutions
• Understanding of low-level engineering and architecture best practices
• Familiarity with Okra’s current stack of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io
• Experience working with distributed teams.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note

• You should still apply if you aren’t ready for the the level of this role yet or don’t check all the boxes. We care about potential. We are willing to start a great candidate with lower expectations alongside a path and the support to grow in time.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.